平成２９年１１月２日 「史実を世界に発信する会」会長代行 茂木弘道拝http://hassin.org
Statement of Protest Concerning the Rejection of our Tibet-Tongzhou Joint Nomination to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register
Fund for Archives of the Tongzhou Massacre
October 31, 2017

On October 30, UNESCO released, on its homepage, a list of seventy-eight new items to be registered in the Memory of the World Register. Previously, the Fund for Archives of the Tongzhou Massacre and Gyari Bhutuk had jointly nominated for registration a collection of documents entitled “Abuses of Human Rights – Tibet and Tongzhou” (Registration Code MoW2016-75). However, the nomination was not included on UNESCO’s list–apparently UNESCO has decided to reject it for inclusion.
It is possible that rejection of the joint nomination was politically motivated. If such was the case, then one should wonder how the Nanjing Massacre was registered in 2016, it too being political and an incredibly controversial issue.
The statement of protest can be found here:

We present No. 3 in this series, which contains Chapter 1: Nanjing, as Observed by Journalists, 3. Yomiuri Shimbun Newspaper (four staffers) and 4. Domei Tsushin Newspaper (three staffers).
Statements from reporters from these newspapers are nearly the same in key areas as statements by reporters of the Asahi Shimbun and Mainichi Shimbun, presented previously in No. 2 of this series. They neither saw a massacre nor heard of a massacre. Furthermore, in their company group meetings, “massacres” were not at all raised as a potentially significant news item.
Some reporters mentioned that they saw “massacres”, but this merely meant that they saw corpses of Chinese soldiers or executions of plain-clothed soldiers operating outside of the bounds of international law. These are, in fact, universal on battlefields. So, at the time, no journalist thought they saw a “massacre,” and, consequently, did not raise these occurrences as topics in their meetings.
However, at the post-war Tokyo Trial, the Japanese army was accused of having committed a “Nanking Massacre”. With such an accusation, journalists then began to wonder, “Was what I saw related to the ‘Nanking Massacre’?” Perhaps they thought that the Chinese prisoners they saw must have been executed, and so on, assuming there was, indeed, a “Massacre”.
For example, Mr. Futamura, photographer for the Hochi Shimbun said, “During my stay in Nanjing, I never saw anything like that at all. After the War, people often asked me about this but I have no memory about it. For sure, I would want to know about this.
… I thought and I remember that I saw a huge hole inside the Castle.” Even a 20 meter x 30 meter pit becomes “evidence” of a “massacre”.
Not only journalist but academics also show a similar way of thinking—making up stories concerning the “Nanking Incident” based on the assumption that that there was a “Nanking Massacre”.

KO BUN’YU’S DEFINING HISTORY
A macroscopic analysis of the differences among the histories of
East Asian nations: Japan, China, Taiwan, and Korea
No.3- Chapter 2 Principles of Chinese Civilization

The Yellow River-based Chinese civilization persists, evolving into its present form, in contrast to three other river-based ancient civilizations, having vanished, conquered by younger civilizations.
Mr. Ko Bunyu writes that the main reason for the persistence of Chinese civilization is conflicts with mounted nomads to the north, who plagued the Chinese civilization from the time of its birth. During the process of constant warfare with strong mounted nomads, the Chinese civilization swallowed up other civilizations and continued to expand.
In the case of the three other civilizations, other civilizations emerged nearby and old and new civilizations coexisted. This new world order lead to a reduction in the frequency of wars. However, the concept of a “nation” was absent from Chinese civilization. The Chinese lived their lives in a borderless world governed by an emperor, whose realm expanded or shrank depending on his power.
Since the ruler of Chinese civilization is determined by war, any and all methods of war are tolerated, and conflicts became increasingly brutal. If you look through Chinese history, you will see a series of large-scale massacres. This civilization has absolutely no desire to adopt means or rules to reduce warfare.

KO BUN’YU’S DEFINING HISTORY
A macroscopic analysis of the differences among the histories of
East Asian nations: Japan, China, Taiwan, and Korea
No.2- Chapter 1 Defining History

Chapter 1 discusses about fundamental points of defining history.
The word history is on occasion defined as “the truth about past events.” But more accurate description would be “past events as we perceive them.”
In other words history is created by human conception.
1, Historical accounts may be long or short, or absent, depending on the amount of interest in a particular event.
2, Different cultures have different attitudes toward history.
3, Most historical perceptions are self-oriented.
4, Consequently comparison is necessary to find meaning of historical perceptions.
And historical perception has a significant influence of a nation’s historical behavior.

We present No. 2 in this series, which contains Chapter 1: Nanjing, as Observed by Journalists, 1. Asahi Shimbun Newspaper (three staffers) and 2. Mainichi Shimbun Newspaper (four staffers). These two newspapers are representative of Japanese newspaper in terms of quality and volume.
On reading their words, you see that most of them said that they neither saw a massacre nor hear of a massacre. In their company group meetings, “massacres” were not at all raised as a significant news item.
Some staffers however did mentioned that they saw “massacres”. However, reading carefully, one will see that they saw corpses of Chinese soldiers, an execution of unauthorized plain-clothed soldiers and guerillas, killing of enemy soldiers by a single corporal, and so on, unfortunate yet universal phenomena on battlefields. If these are considered “massacres”, then all the battles are indeed “massacres”. The battle of Nanking was not an anomaly—it was just one large battle of many.
We invite you to read their testimonies.

KO BUN’YU’S DEFINING HISTORY
A macroscopic analysis of the differences among the histories of
East Asian nations: Japan, China, Taiwan, and Korea
No.1- Foreword and Table of Contents

Ko Bun’yu’s historical perception is unique and macroscopic. Defining History presents his penetrating analysis, rooted in historical philosophy, of the features of and differences among the histories of Japan, China, Taiwan, and Korea.

Postwar Japanese history education has been heavily influenced by Russia (the Comintern historical perspective, whose objective is social revolution) and the US (the “IMTFE historical perception”). Since the 1980s the Chinese historical perspective has entered into the picture, with the PRC and Korea forming a chorus whose “message” is transmitted at full volume by gullible media representatives and educators, and used to brainwash our students. Our current reality involves unrelenting efforts on the part of China and Korea to force the correct historical perception (meaning their historical perception) down our throats.

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to extricate ourselves from this deplorable situation has come to us in the form of Ko Bun’yu and his historical perception, which should be disseminated throughout the world. To that end, we would like to invite all citizens of the world to read the English translation of Defining History.

The Nanjing Incident: Japanese Eyewitness Accounts
-Testimony from 48 Japanese Who Were There-
By Ara Ken’ichi
No.1: Introduction, Preface and TOC

This book is highly significant in that it contains the words of military officials, journalists, diplomats and others who were in Nanjing in 1937. The so-called “Nanjing Incident” is a very controversy issue – even what to name it is controversial. The most obvious path to take to arrive at the facts is to listen to the people who were actually there that time. Therefore, Mr. Ara Ken’ichi adopted this approach for this book–the most forthright and honest from a journalistic perspective.
What did the Japanese do or did not do? What did they see? Was there anything that they saw that could be considered a massacre? After you read this book, you will see the truth.

New History Textbook for Middle School Students
Series No. 8, Chapter 4: Modern Japan and the World (Part 1) – From the Final Years of the Edo Shogunate to the End of the Meiji Period
Sections 3, 4

Series No. 8 contains Chapter 4, Sections 3 & 4.

Chapter 4, Section 3: Constitutionalism and the wars with China and Russia
Topic 58– The struggle to revise the unequal treaties
What strategies did Japan employ in order to renegotiate the unequal treaties signed with the Western powers during the final years of the shogunate?
* French Food and Black Mourning Dress
* An Excerpt from Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu’s Speech to the Diet on
Treaty Revision (1893)
* The Long Road to Treaty Revision
Topic 59 – The Freedom and People’s Rights Movement and the birth of political parties
How did the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement start and in what way was it connected to the formation of Japan’s first political parties?
* An Excerpt from Itagaki Taisuke’s 1874 Proposal to Establish a Popularly Elected Assembly
(as recorded in Itagaki’s book The History of the Liberal Party)
* Reading Groups and the Draft Constitutions of the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement
Topic 60 – The Meiji Constitution and the foundation of a constitutional state
What principles were enshrined within the Meiji Constitution?
* A Constitution Praised Inside and Outside Japan
* The Imperial Rescript on Education
* The Major Articles of the Meiji Constitution
* Fukuzawa Yukichi, Author of An Encouragement of Learning and Leaving Asia
Topic 61 – The First Sino-Japanese War and the Triple Intervention
What sort of conflict was the First Sino-Japanese War?
* Kim Ok-kyun and the Kapsin Coup
* Japan’s First Party Cabinet
Topic 62 – The Anglo-Japanese Alliance
Why did Japan favor an alliance with Great Britain to protect its national security?
* The Disadvantages of a Russo-Japanese Treaty
(according to Komura Jutaro’s opinion paper)
* The Advantages of an Anglo-Japanese Alliance
Topic 63 – The Russo-Japanese War: Japan’s riskiest gambit
How was the Russo-Japanese War fought and what impact did Japan’s victory have on the world?
* The Japanese People who Fought the Russo-Japanese War
Topic 64 – Japan takes its place among the great powers
What were the consequences of Japan having joined the ranks of the great powers?
* America’s Gunboat Diplomacy Towards Japan
* Ito Hirobumi, Political Workhorse of the Meiji Government
Chapter 4, Section 4 – The evolution of modern industry and shaping of modern culture
Topic 65 – The development of modern industry and its consequences
How did Japan’s industrial revolution unfold?
* Model Government Factories Sold to Private Citizens
* Shibusawa Eiichi, The Man Who Made Japanese Business What It Is Today
Topic 66 – The formation of a modern culture
How did Japan’s acceptance of Western influence affect traditional Japanese culture?
* Japanese Scientists of the Meiji Period
* How the World Saw the Russo-Japanese War
CHAPTER 4 SUMMARY:
SUMMING UP THE MODERN PERIOD (PART 1)
MINI HISTORICAL DICTIONARY

Usando Was Not Takeshima:
An Analysis of the Newly Discovered Reproduction of
Kim Jeong-ho’s Map of the Great East Land
By Shimojo Masao, Professor at Takushoku University

On August 2, 2017, the online edition of South Korea’s Yonhap News reported that a hand-drawn reproduction of Map of the Great East Land, a map of Korea originally created by the famed nineteenth-century cartographer Kim Jeong-ho, was discovered in Japan. According to Yonhap News, this reproduction included the island of Takeshima, known as Dokdo in Korea, as Korean territory, apparently strengthening Korea’s claim to the island; ownership of the island is today disputed between Japan and Korea.http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/culturesports/2017/08/02/0701000000AEN20170802004200315.html

In 1711, government inspector Bak Seok-chang surveyed the island and produced Map of Ulleungdo (Ulleungdo Dohyeong in Korean), which includes Usando, called Jukdo, an island located about two kilometers east of Ulleungdo. Since then, Jukdo was an island designated in Korean maps as Usando. Takeshima, which is 92 kilometers south east of Ulleungdo, was never called “Usando”. So, the belief that Usando=Takeshima=Dokdo is based on a complete false notion.

New History Textbook for Middle School Students
Series No. 7, Chapter 4: Modern Japan and the World (Part 1) – From the Final Years of the Edo Shogunate to the End of the Meiji Period
Sections 1, 2

Series No. 7 contains Chapter 4, Sections 1 & 2.

Chapter 4, Section 1: The encroachment of the Western powers in Asia
Topic 47 – Industrial and people’s revolutions
What events led to the birth of Europe’s modern nations?
Topic 48 – The Western invasion of Asia
How did the Western powers advance into Asia?
Chapter 4, Section 2 – From the end of isolationism to the Meiji Restoration
Topic 49 – Commodore Perry and the opening of Japan to the West
What events forced Japan to open its doors to the outside world?
* What Did Perry Think of the Japanese People?
Topic 50 – The rise of the sonno joi movement
How did the sonno joi movement arise during the waning years of the Edo shogunate?
* Excerpts from the Treaty of Amity and Commerce
* The Tsushima Incident
Topic 51 – The Satcho Alliance and restoration of imperial rule
How did the Edo shogunate come to an end?
Topic 52 – The Meiji Government
What nation-building principles did Japan adopt at the time of the Meiji Restoration?
* The Charter Oath
Topic 53 – The abolition of the domains and equality of all citizens
How did Japan achieve social equality and establish a centralized state under the Meiji government?
* The Key Figures in the Great Council of State (The Meiji Government)
* How Did the Samurai React to the Abolition of the Domains?
Topic 54 – Groundbreaking educational, military, and fiscal reforms
How did the Meiji Government implement its three greatest reforms?
* An Excerpt from the Imperial Proclamation on the Encouragement of Education
*The Meaning of the Meiji Restoration
Topic 55 – Defining Japan’s national boundaries
How did Japan demarcate its national borders with neighboring countries?
* An Excerpt from the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Friendship (1871)
* The Tributary System Versus the Rule of International Law
* The Annexation of Ryukyu
* The Ainu and the Modernization of Japan
Topic 56 – The Iwakura Mission and the “Debate on Punishing Korea”
How did the Iwakura Mission’s observations of the world impact Japan’s subsequent nation-building efforts?
Topic 57 – Industrialization and westernization
How did government policies designed to promote industrialism and Western culture progress?
* An Excerpt from Okubo Toshimichi’s Official Address on the “Increase Production and Promote Industry” Campaign (1874)
* From the Lunar Calendar to the Solar Calendar
* The Lifestyles of the Japanese People in the late-Edo and Meiji Periods